The race to help refugees in South Sudan - 4/2/12



Médecins sans Frontières is working in Doro and Jamam refugee camps in South Sudan. About 80,000 refugees have fled to the camps to escape ongoing violence in Blue Nile state
MSF – working against the clock – is trying to help as many as possible before seasonal rains at the end of the month make the area inaccessible.
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Earthquakes 5.0+ 3/31/12 thru 4/3/12

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Syria Uprising: Homs Shelling Kills Dozens As Friends Of Syria Meet In Turkey



BEIRUT -- Shells slammed into the central Syrian city of Homs Sunday, killing more than two dozen people, activists said, as Syria's government defied cease-fire demands and international efforts to boost the rebels.
Activists said heavy machine gun fire and artillery pounded the districts of Khaldiyeh, Bayada and Safsafa in the battered city, despite world demands on the Syrian regime to end violence that has killed thousands of people in the past year.
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Spain budget: Cuts to total 27bn euros this year



Spain is cutting 27bn euros ($36bn; £22.5bn) from its budget this year as part of one of the toughest austerity drives in its history.
Changes will include freezing public sector workers' salaries and reducing departmental budgets by 16.9%.
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Portuguese protest austerity measures - 4/1/12



protest the government plan to cut 1500 Civil Parishes throughout the country, a Press TV correspondent reported on Sunday.
The administrative reforms are part of the austerity measures adopted by the Portuguese government to show its commitment to the European Union and the International Monetary Fund for providing a 70 billion Euros loan to the country.
Portugal is the third country to succumb to financial troubles in the euro zone debt crisis and seek funding assistance after Greece and Ireland.
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150 dead in Libyan tribal clashes reveal vacuum in authority - 4/1/12



Libya's interim government says a ceasefire has been reached in a six-day conflict between two tribes that has claimed some 150 lives in the southern city of Sabha. However, the violence reveals the government's tenuous grasp in the country.
Residents of the oasis say that the rivalry burst into open conflict Monday after a Tubu shot a member of the Arab Abu Seif tribe. Further aggravating the conflict, a delegation of Tubu elders and armed men heading to reconciliation talks were ambushed. The violence escalated as more and more families were dragged into a deadly blood feud that killed almost 150 people. In addition to the dead, more than four hundred have been injured, overwhelming local hospitals.
Sabha residents say the two groups exchanged fire with automatic rifles, mortars, and rockets. Tubu tribal spokesman Mohammed Lino said some 70 Tubu homes were torched and 100 families were forced to flee the city during the past week of violence.
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Clashes leave dozens dead in South Yemen - 4/1/12



At least 29 people have been killed in heavy clashes between the Yemeni army and suspected militants in Lahij Province in southern Yemen.
Yemeni military officials added that the air force and ground troops are shelling an army post taken over by the militants.
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